* Support configuring the Azure load balancer idle connection timeout for services ([#66045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66045), [@cpuguy83](https://github.com/cpuguy83))
* Let service controller retry creating load balancer when persistUpdate failed due to conflict. ([#68087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68087), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- Fix PermissionDenied issue on SMB mount for Windows ([#99550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

- Don't let aggregated apiservers fail to launch if the external-apiserver-authentication configmap is not found in the cluster. ([#67836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67836), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- github.com/gliderlabs/ssh: v0.1.1
- github.com/go-critic/go-critic: 1df3008
- github.com/go-kit/kit: v0.8.0
- github.com/go-lintpack/lintpack: v0.5.2
- github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt: v0.3.0
- github.com/go-ole/go-ole: v1.2.1
- github.com/go-stack/stack: v1.8.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astcast: v1.0.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astcopy: v1.0.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astequal: v1.0.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astfmt: v1.0.0

- github.com/go-critic/go-critic: [1df3008](https://github.com/go-critic/go-critic/tree/1df3008)
- github.com/go-lintpack/lintpack: [v0.5.2](https://github.com/go-lintpack/lintpack/tree/v0.5.2)
- github.com/go-ole/go-ole: [v1.2.1](https://github.com/go-ole/go-ole/tree/v1.2.1)
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astcast: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/go-toolsmith/astcast/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/go-toolsmith/astcopy: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/go-toolsmith/astcopy/tree/v1.0.0)

* Remove Job also from .status.active for Replace strategy ([#35420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35420), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Let release_1_5 clientset include multiple versions of a group ([#35471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35471), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

  - warn - perform server-side validation and warn on any invalid fields (but ultimately let the request succeed by dropping any invalid fields from the object). If validation is not available on the server, perform no validation.

* Add kubelet --network-plugin-mtu flag for MTU selection ([#30376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30376), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Let Services preserve client IPs and not double-hop from external LBs (alpha) ([#29409](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29409), [@girishkalele](https://github.com/girishkalele))

   ([#123508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123508), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Dynamic Resource Allocation: DRA drivers can now use "structured parameters" to let the scheduler handle claim allocation.
   ([#123516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123516), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))